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Politička kultura i društveno-političke organizacije
Political Culture and Social-Political Organization

Author(s): Zdravko Tomac
Subject(s): Politics, Political Theory, Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: Political Culture; Social-Political Organization;

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the standpoint that the essence of self-government is in the realization of the class interests of producers, the author emphasizes the necessity to engage social-political organizations to develop political culture of citizens which culture will be founded upon the revolutionary consciousness about the necessity of the development of self-government as socialist social relation wherein there is the essential task how producers will dispose of the surplus of work as fully as possible.By mentioning some controversial social relations in the present phase of the development of self-government the author emphasizes that there is no spontaneous development of self-government, that in the present phase it is necessary to strengthen political organization of society and especially the role of the League of Communists. He pledges for the action and form of organization of social-political organizations to become contemporary, and for changing the methods and contents of the work of social-political organizations where not only the efficacy of their action will increase but also their action will adapt to the claims of the present phase of the development of self-government. Mentioning some fundamental tasks of social political organizations the development of the special policy of the culture of the self-governing society the author specially pledges for everyday political activity in the covering of powers and opposition to the development of self-government. He emphasizes that concrete political action in the basis of society in the present conditions is the most efficacious means for changing the politic culture of citizens and for the development of specific political culture the self-governing society. At the end of the article the author emphasizes the necessity for systematic research of political culture in the conditions of the development self-government, and points out at the necessity of construction of clear ideological attitudes concerning a range of essential questions of the development of self-government in practice, so to make clear some undefined attitudes, vacillations and different thinking about some fundamental ideological principles whereon political structure of the system of direct self-government should be constructed.

  • Issue Year: VII/1970
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 13-22
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Croatian
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